I'd really like to see something like this take off... It just seems like the ethically right thing for social media to be decentralized and open source, so we

I'd really like to see something like this take off... It just seems like the ethically right thing for social media to be decentralized and open source, so we truly own the data and not sell out our privacy for the simple right to reliably and easily have access to people online. Something I've been thinking a lot about recently: why does HN not have an instance in Mastodon or Diaspora? Clearly a lot here detest traditional social media but like talking to each other, and could even contribute to the open source projects, so it seems like a neat way to bootstrap a lot of people to join such a thing (ive tried Diaspora pods but it seems pretty...empty. Stupid network effects). In fact I am thinking of setting up an unnoficial HN Diaspora* pod, but I'm just one guy...